The theme for the 2025 GMTK Game Jam was “Loop”
My team-mate and I decided to create a game where the player had to pedal a bike like in a real one, pressing A when the pedal Is on the left, and D when it is right. With the mouse, the player controlls the Y-translation.
The better the player pedals, the faster they get, and the harder it is for the bee to catch up to them, which would ultimately mean they loose the game.
We also added a mechanic where the terrain loops infinitely and every time the player crosses the “loop-threshold” a version of them from the past loop would be added to the road, to add obstacles to the track.
Sadly this mechanic ended up not being very intuitive.